24 min
S2:E4 - Dr. Gina Guillaume-Joseph | From Engineer to CTO: How Drive and Persistence Can Take You To The Top Count Me Too
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- Careers
In this episode, I sat down with Dr. Gina Guillaume-Joseph, Chief Technology Officer - Government at Workday, where she leverages her technology implementation experience and vast network to align Workday with the US Federal Government’s Technology Transformation Strategy. We discuss some of the attributes/practices that enabled her to create an amazing career trajectory from System Engineer to Director and now CTO. We also do a deep dive in how as a Black woman in STEM, she navigated the workplace as a One and Only, and how effective sponsorship was a key ingredient of that success.
Gina spent 16 years supporting the US Federal Government as a contractor with Booz Allen Hamilton, L-3 Communications and The MITRE Corporation. As a Systems Engineer she was responsible for implementing key strategic frameworks, solutions and technology platforms to assist agencies such as the DoD, IRS, FDIC, DHS, VA, and SSA overcome technology gaps in delivering capabilities and value to our United States Taxpayers. Prior to coming to Workday, Gina served as Director of Technology at Capital One, Gina supported the HR and People Technology team as a strategic technical advisor. She matured their Scaled Agile practices by hiring agilists, training the team, and fully implementing the framework to scale resulting in improved product value delivery across the organization. Workday was a key product implemented at Capital One and her team was responsible to ensure that Capital One was leveraging its full capabilities. Gina earned her Bachelors in Computer Science from Boston College, her Masters in Information Systems from University of Maryland Baltimore County and her Doctor of Philosophy in Systems Engineering from The George Washington University.
In this episode, I sat down with Dr. Gina Guillaume-Joseph, Chief Technology Officer - Government at Workday, where she leverages her technology implementation experience and vast network to align Workday with the US Federal Government’s Technology Transformation Strategy. We discuss some of the attributes/practices that enabled her to create an amazing career trajectory from System Engineer to Director and now CTO. We also do a deep dive in how as a Black woman in STEM, she navigated the workplace as a One and Only, and how effective sponsorship was a key ingredient of that success.
Gina spent 16 years supporting the US Federal Government as a contractor with Booz Allen Hamilton, L-3 Communications and The MITRE Corporation. As a Systems Engineer she was responsible for implementing key strategic frameworks, solutions and technology platforms to assist agencies such as the DoD, IRS, FDIC, DHS, VA, and SSA overcome technology gaps in delivering capabilities and value to our United States Taxpayers. Prior to coming to Workday, Gina served as Director of Technology at Capital One, Gina supported the HR and People Technology team as a strategic technical advisor. She matured their Scaled Agile practices by hiring agilists, training the team, and fully implementing the framework to scale resulting in improved product value delivery across the organization. Workday was a key product implemented at Capital One and her team was responsible to ensure that Capital One was leveraging its full capabilities. Gina earned her Bachelors in Computer Science from Boston College, her Masters in Information Systems from University of Maryland Baltimore County and her Doctor of Philosophy in Systems Engineering from The George Washington University.
24 min